What is "unconditioned"

Usage examples of "unconditioned".

Yet it is not immutable or unconditioned, for it depends on the continued maintenance of attentional stability and vividness.

He needed to breathe unconditioned air, to see unadjusted colors, to feel the neutrality of unattuned spaces.

He and Pastor Crenshaw seemed to be struggling to stand steady, unconditioned to their new light weight, like Trenae.

Whereas in pavlovian - or, as it became known, classical - conditioning the experimental animals were the passive recipients of the unconditioned and conditioning stimuli which they had to learn to pair, the skinnerian approach was to put the animals into a situation where they had to do something positive, to act on their environment - to emit an operant.

The two inputs have to be combined or associated in time in the same sort of way that conditioning and unconditioned stimuli have to be combined for association learning to occur.

The substance or essence of unconditioned matter, as apart from the relations between its various states (which we believe to be its various conditions of motion) must remain for ever unknown to us, for it is only the relations between the conditions of the underlying substance that we cognise at all, and where there are no conditions, there is nothing for us to seize, compare, and, hence, cognise.

If then we find that, under the supposition of our experience conforming to the objects as things by themselves, it is impossible to conceive the unconditioned without contradiction, while, under the supposition of our representation of things, as they are given to us, not conforming to them as things by themselves, but, on the contrary, of the objects conforming to our mode of representation, that contradiction vanishes, and that therefore the unconditioned must not be looked for in things, so far as we know them (so far as they are given to us), but only so far as we do not know them (as things by themselves), we clearly perceive that, what we at first assumed tentatively only, is fully confirmed.

But some have tried to make the best of both worlds, indeed of all the worlds -- the best of Indianism, the best of Christianity, and the best of those Other Worlds of transcendental experience, where the soul knows itself as unconditioned and of like nature with the divine.

Why does the CR, conditioned response, mysteriously change to a physiological reaction totally opposite to the UCR, the unconditioned response to heroin?

In fact, the connection between the conditioned stimulus or CS (tone or rat) and the unconditioned stimulus or UCS (food or loud noise) must make sense and be useful, otherwise an animal or human won't learn that connection.

Nothing but the truth of the rationality of the unconditioned mind gives such power to the ever-popular story of the emperor's new clothes.

The same applies to the series of causes, one being prior to the other, and to the series leading from conditioned to unconditioned necessary existence, which can never be regarded either by itself finite in its totality or infinite, because, as a series of subordinated representations, it forms a dynamical regressus only, and cannot exist prior to it, by itself, as a self-subsistent series of things.

The transcendental idea of a necessary and all-sufficient original Being is so overwhelming, so high above everything empirical, which is always conditioned, that we can never find in experience enough material to fill such a concept, and can only grope about among things conditioned, looking in vain for the unconditioned, of which no rule of any empirical synthesis can ever give us an example, or even show the way towards it.

A rat can learn to cross a barrier between one side of a box and the other in response to a signal which consists merely of the train of impulses to the hippocampus as the unconditioned stimulus.

The task that is now before us in the transcendental Dialectic which has to be developed from sources deeply hidden in the human reason, is this: to discover the correctness or otherwise the falsehood of the principle that the series of conditions (in the synthesis of phenomena, or of objective thought in general) extends to the unconditioned, and what consequences result therefrom with regard to the empirical use of the understanding:—.